National Assembly (Group/Legislature) (jul 25, 1789 – jul 25, 1791)

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TENNIS COURT OATH:

- 3rd Estate Generals are angry because they keep getting voted down

- at an Estates General meeting, the king locks the 3rd Estate delegates out so that they cannot attend- this is the last straw

- delegates get mad and go to the "tennis court" where they and a few from the nobility estate take an oath to change the power dynamic and start a revolution


Bastille

Worker class storm the Bastille: gunpowder-filled prison/dungeon (tore down every stone)


Rights of Man: written by Robespierre

- King Louis XVI gets scared by the document, thinking he will be overthrown and tries to flee: Flight to Varennes- but is arrested before he can leave

- The country thinks Louis is a traitor, is against the revolution, and cannot be trusted

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